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20 posts · joined 2006-05-24

A. Fatih Syuhud an Indonesian blogger writes about Indonesia, Islam and Muslim and current affairs. He is blogging at http://fatihsyuhud.com and http://afatih.wordpress.com and can be contacted at fatihsyuhud[at]gmail.com

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August 26th, 2007

Indonesia: Kidnapping Children for Ransom

Nobody in Indonesia feels sure as to what motivates the criminals to abduct a child to serve their purpose. One thing is clear this trend is growing and it grows at an alarming pace. The "climax" of such child abduction criminal trend was the release of Raisya, a 4-year-old pre-nursery ...

March 24th, 2007

Bachelor Degree for President and the MP's Laptop

In political arena every move becomes political, or considered to be political if it's not in line with certain interest of particular segment of political elites. That's exactly what's happening currently in Indonesian both in politicosphere and blogosphere. A contentious debate over the current plan of DPR (Indonesia's MP) ...

February 5th, 2007

Indonesia: Floods that Paralysed the Capital and its People

Indonesia again gets international media intention for yet another natural disaster. This time the capital Jakarta has gone through the worst floods in five years. The floods paralysed everything - the business activities, its people movement and day-to-day government activities. Picture from Rifle's Flickr Page Around 340,000 of Jakarta's population were ...

December 29th, 2006

Indonesia: Internet Outage and Flood in Aceh

There is nothing worse for Indonesian bloggers in particular around the new year eve but to see the sudden temporary "demise" of internet connection. The cause as reported by Budi Putra, , Sani Asy'ari and Enda Nasution is "the strong quake off Taiwan’s coast on December 26 damaged submarine cables ...

December 8th, 2006

Indonesia: Polygamous Holy Man and MP's Sex Scandal

There is nothing more ovelwheming than the conversations among Indonesian blogosphere these past few weeks. The talk involves two occurences that looks similar but are actually unrelated - Aa Gym's second wife and an Indonesian MP of Golkar party's sex scandal. First off, for non-Indonesian, here's an intro by TIME magazine ...

November 23rd, 2006

Bush and Indonesia Islam

If you watched CNN or BBC before and during Bush's visit to Indonesia, you would see a sea of protersters in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta with slogan of anti-Bush and to some extent, anti-American foreign policy. But with most female protesters were wearing Islamic clothes i.e. jilbab (Indonesian term for Islamic ...